UTILIZATION OF MARKET ORGANIC WASTE INTO ANIMAL FEED PELLETS

Abstract

Background: Rubbish is still often treated as something that is of no use. Rubbish can provide benefits to humans. Several types of vegetable waste from the market can be used as animal feed. This study aims to get a solution to overcome the buildup of organic waste in market by creating into a pellet and find out if the animal likes the organic waste pellets.

Methods: This type of research is experimental, which is a research method that uses a quantitative approach, doing three controlling activities, manipulating activities, and observation. In this study, researchers took the three types of organic waste most widely produced in the market, namely mustard, bean sprouts and spinach, were treated as pellets and were examined for their nutrient content and moisture content and were tested on experimental animals.

Result: From the observations it can be seen that the pellets favored by the test animals are pellets from bean sprouts with the most pellets being eaten every day. Moreover, the most disliked by the test animals are pellets from mustard greens, this is possible because the bean sprouts pellets smell of caramel and hollow texture, while mustard pellets smell like salted fish.

Conclusion: Organic waste should be collected and made into pellets so that it can be of economic value. In making mustard pellets, it should not be in a pure state but made into a mixture so that it is preferred by animals.

Keyword: Organic waste, pellet, animal food